diff --git a/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/login-page.ts b/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/login-page.ts
index 3781b4538..35c326a50 100644
--- a/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/login-page.ts
+++ b/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/login-page.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { Page, ShownModallyData } from "tns-core-modules/ui/page";
 import { EventData, fromObject } from "tns-core-modules/data/observable";
+import { alert } from "tns-core-modules/ui/dialogs";
 
 export function onShowingModally(args: ShownModallyData) {
     console.log("login-page.onShowingModally, context: " + args.context);
@@ -12,7 +13,19 @@ export function onShowingModally(args: ShownModallyData) {
         onLoginButtonTap: function () {
             console.log("login-page.onLoginButtonTap");
             args.closeCallback(this.username, this.password);
-        }
+        },
+        showAlert: function () {
+          alert("showing alert!");
+          args.closeCallback();
+      },
+      openNestedModal: function () {
+          page.showModal("modal-view/nested-modal", {
+            context: "First",
+            closeCallback: () => {
+              console.log("login-page.openNestedModal");
+            }
+        });
+      }
     });
 }
 
diff --git a/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/login-page.xml b/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/login-page.xml
index 4605aa14f..f0208a2c4 100644
--- a/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/login-page.xml
+++ b/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/login-page.xml
@@ -7,5 +7,7 @@
     <TextField hint="username" text="{{ username }}"/>
     <TextField hint="password" text="{{ password }}" secure="true"/>
     <Button text="Login" tap="{{ onLoginButtonTap }}"/>
+    <Button text="Show Alert" tap="{{ showAlert }}"/>
+    <Button text="Open Nested Modal" tap="{{ openNestedModal }}"/>
   </StackLayout>
 </Page>
diff --git a/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/nested-modal.ts b/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/nested-modal.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b438ad2a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/nested-modal.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import { Page, ShownModallyData } from "tns-core-modules/ui/page";
+import { EventData, fromObject } from "tns-core-modules/data/observable";
+import { alert } from "tns-core-modules/ui/dialogs";
+
+export function onShowingModally(args: ShownModallyData) {
+    console.log("nested-modal.onShowingModally, context: " + args.context);
+    const page = <Page>args.object;
+
+    page.bindingContext = fromObject({
+        context: args.context,
+        onTap: function () {
+            alert("it works!");
+        }
+    });
+}
+
+export function onShownModally(args: ShownModallyData) {
+    console.log("nested-modal.onShownModally, context: " + args.context);
+}
+
+export function onLoaded(args: EventData) {
+    console.log("nested-modal.onLoaded");
+}
+
+export function onUnloaded() {
+    console.log("nested-modal.onUnloaded");
+}
diff --git a/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/nested-modal.xml b/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/nested-modal.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7795a0afa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/ui-tests-app/app/modal-view/nested-modal.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+<Page xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd"
+  showingModally="onShowingModally"
+  shownModally="onShownModally"
+  loaded="onLoaded" unloaded="onUnloaded" backgroundColor="Red">
+  <StackLayout backgroundColor="PaleGreen" margin="10">
+    <Label text="{{ context }}"/>
+    <Button text="Show Alert" tap="{{ onTap }}"/>
+  </StackLayout>
+</Page>
diff --git a/nativescript-core/ui/dialogs/dialogs.ios.ts b/nativescript-core/ui/dialogs/dialogs.ios.ts
index f7eb1dbe6..0e172c607 100644
--- a/nativescript-core/ui/dialogs/dialogs.ios.ts
+++ b/nativescript-core/ui/dialogs/dialogs.ios.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 /**
  * iOS specific dialogs functions implementation.
  */
-import { ios as iosView } from "../core/view";
+import { ios as iosView, traceCategories, traceWrite, traceMessageType } from "../core/view";
 import { ConfirmOptions, PromptOptions, PromptResult, LoginOptions, LoginResult, ActionOptions } from ".";
 import { getCurrentPage, getLabelColor, getButtonColors, getTextFieldColor, isDialogOptions, inputType, capitalizationType, ALERT, OK, CONFIRM, CANCEL, PROMPT, parseLoginOptions } from "./dialogs-common";
 import { isString, isDefined, isFunction } from "../../utils/types";
-import { getRootView } from "../../application";
+import { getRootView, ios } from "../../application";
 
 export * from "./dialogs-common";
 
@@ -200,54 +200,42 @@ export function login(...args: any[]): Promise<LoginResult> {
 }
 
 function showUIAlertController(alertController: UIAlertController) {
-    let currentView = getCurrentPage() || getRootView();
+    let viewController = ios.rootController;
+   
+    while (viewController && viewController.presentedViewController) {
+        viewController = viewController.presentedViewController;
+    }
 
-    if (currentView) {
-        currentView = currentView.modal || currentView;
+    if (!viewController) {
+      traceWrite(`No root controller found to open dialog.`, traceCategories.Error, traceMessageType.warn);
+      
+      return;
+    }
 
-        //get to the top most view controller on the stack
-        while (currentView && currentView.modal) {
-            currentView = currentView.modal;
+    if (alertController.popoverPresentationController) {
+        alertController.popoverPresentationController.sourceView = viewController.view;
+        alertController.popoverPresentationController.sourceRect = CGRectMake(viewController.view.bounds.size.width / 2.0, viewController.view.bounds.size.height / 2.0, 1.0, 1.0);
+        alertController.popoverPresentationController.permittedArrowDirections = 0;
+    }
+
+    let color = getButtonColors().color;
+    if (color) {
+        alertController.view.tintColor = color.ios;
+    }
+
+    let lblColor = getLabelColor();
+    if (lblColor) {
+        if (alertController.title) {
+            let title = NSAttributedString.alloc().initWithStringAttributes(alertController.title, <any>{ [NSForegroundColorAttributeName]: lblColor.ios });
+            alertController.setValueForKey(title, "attributedTitle");
         }
-        
-        let viewController: UIViewController = currentView.ios;
-
-        if (viewController.presentedViewController) {
-            viewController = viewController.presentedViewController;
-        }
-
-        if (!(currentView.ios instanceof UIViewController)) {
-            const parentWithController = iosView.getParentWithViewController(currentView);
-            viewController = parentWithController ? parentWithController.viewController : undefined;
-        }
-
-        if (viewController) {
-            if (alertController.popoverPresentationController) {
-                alertController.popoverPresentationController.sourceView = viewController.view;
-                alertController.popoverPresentationController.sourceRect = CGRectMake(viewController.view.bounds.size.width / 2.0, viewController.view.bounds.size.height / 2.0, 1.0, 1.0);
-                alertController.popoverPresentationController.permittedArrowDirections = 0;
-            }
-
-            let color = getButtonColors().color;
-            if (color) {
-                alertController.view.tintColor = color.ios;
-            }
-
-            let lblColor = getLabelColor();
-            if (lblColor) {
-                if (alertController.title) {
-                    let title = NSAttributedString.alloc().initWithStringAttributes(alertController.title, <any>{ [NSForegroundColorAttributeName]: lblColor.ios });
-                    alertController.setValueForKey(title, "attributedTitle");
-                }
-                if (alertController.message) {
-                    let message = NSAttributedString.alloc().initWithStringAttributes(alertController.message, <any>{ [NSForegroundColorAttributeName]: lblColor.ios });
-                    alertController.setValueForKey(message, "attributedMessage");
-                }
-            }
-
-            viewController.presentModalViewControllerAnimated(alertController, true);
+        if (alertController.message) {
+            let message = NSAttributedString.alloc().initWithStringAttributes(alertController.message, <any>{ [NSForegroundColorAttributeName]: lblColor.ios });
+            alertController.setValueForKey(message, "attributedMessage");
         }
     }
+
+    viewController.presentModalViewControllerAnimated(alertController, true);
 }
 
 export function action(): Promise<string> {